OCIDA to vote on Destiny research park Monday

The Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency will hold a special meeting at 8 a.m. Monday at the Sam Williams Business Center, 1201 E. Fayette St., to take final action on an environmental impact statement for the proposed Destiny USA Research and Development Park in Salina.

The agency is scheduled to vote on whether to approve the statement, which lays out likely adverse impacts of the project and proposes measures to mitigate them.

Developer Robert Congel has proposed building a $472 million research and development center on 60.3 acres of land at the northeast corner of Seventh North Street and Interstate 81.

The county owns the land on which the center would be built. County Executive Nicholas Pirro, who is leaving office at the end of the year, had hoped the county Legislature would vote on Tuesday to sell the land to Congel. But the proposed sale has not been placed on the Legislature's agenda.